-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre has finally scrapped its controversial notification on a ban on sale of animals for slaughter in livestock markets and come out with new draft rules doing away with the clause on “restrictions on sale of cattle”. This means cattle, including cows, can be sold in animal markets, even for slaughter wherever it is legal. Last year’s notification had not prohibited slaughter as such, but...
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Two SC/ST courts: 1,450 pending cases -Shalini Nair, Satish Jha & Maulshree Seth
-The Indian Express Of 700-odd districts, merely 194 have the recommended exclusive courts for SC/ST Act cases. The Sunday Express travels to two such courts — one in Ahmedabad, set up after Una, and the other in Banda, a district with a high number of cases — to find a familiar story Over 1.44 lakh cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes and 23,408 cases of atrocities against Scheduled Tribes came for trial...
More »What Supreme Court's dilution of SC/ST Act means for Dalit women -Ragini Bhuyan
-Livemint.com Crimes against Dalit women constitute the biggest category of crimes against Dalits registered under the SC/ST Act Mumbai: A dilution of the stringent provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is going to affect Dalit women far more than men. Nearly a fifth of cases registered under the Atrocities Act are crimes against women. If one excludes the category “others” (which includes various miscellaneous crimes), crimes...
More »The Last 7 Days Alone Portray the Status of Dalits in India -Faizan Mustafa
-TheCitizen.in Forget about 66 per cent increase in crimes against Dalits in last ten years or rapes of Dalit women doubled or a crime being committed against Dalits every 15 minutes. Let us just see what happened in the last one week: - A Dalit boy was killed on Friday for buying and riding a horse in Gujrat demonstrating our hatred and prejudices against Dalits. - A Dalit couple from Kasganj,U.P. has been...
More »Supreme Court stands by its SC/ST Act judgment -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu The court says it has only protected innocents from falling prey to arbitrary arrests under the Act. The Supreme Court said its March 20 judgment, banning immediate arrest of a person accused of insulting or injuring a Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe member, is meant to protect innocents from arbitrary arrest and not an affront to Dalit rights. The government, despite an urgent and open court hearing of its review petition, failed to...
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